Governor Terry Branstad signed into law millions of dollars for water quality the first week of July, $4.4 million was in the Agriculture and Natural Resources appropriation bill called SF 494. That bill also changed the name of the Iowa Department of Agriculture’s Division of Soil Conservation, adding water quality. Jim Gillespie, director of the now Division of Soil Conservation & Water Quality, says they’ve been working with water quality efforts for decades. The first state cost-share program was…Read more